Bedheim

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Bedheim
City of Römhild
Bedheim coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 20 ″  N , 10 ° 39 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 328 m
Residents : 588
Incorporation : March 23, 1993
Incorporated into: Gleichamberg
Postal code : 98630
Area code : 03685

Bedheim is a district of Römhild in the district of Hildburghausen ( southern Thuringia ) and currently has 588 inhabitants.

location

Bedheim is about 8 kilometers southwest of the district town of Hildburghausen and belongs to the city of Römhild. The village is located in the eastern foreland of the Gleichberge , embedded in the southern slope of the Hahnritz.

history

Bedheim was first mentioned in a document in 1169.

Bedheim was hit by the witch hunt in 1616 . Catharina, Simon Bedheim's wife, got into a witch trial and was burned.

On March 23, 1993 Bedheim was incorporated into the community of Gleichamberg. On January 1, 2013, the community of Gleichamberg merged with the city of Römhild and other communities to form the new city of Römhild.

Culture and sights

The church and the castle are of particular importance to Bedheim .

church

Evangelical Church of St. Kilian

The sanctuary and sacristy of St. Kilian were built in 1260 or 1290. The documentary record dates from 1332 that the building was dedicated to St. Kilian. Today's church has two organs . In 1711 the main organ was built in and ten years later a small organ was hung across from the Schwibbogen of the church. The older of the two organs is a work by Caspar Schippel , the younger one by Nicolaus Seeber . Due to the structural arrangement, which is reminiscent of a swallow's nest, the small organ is also known as the swallow's nest organ . Both organs can be played together, as their actions flow into a common console. Numerous members of the owners von Heßberg and Rühle von Lilienstern were buried in the chancel.

Bedheim Castle

Bedheim Castle (east wing)

The three-wing castle emerged from a pond house with a neck moat, which was built in connection with the church, which was built as a fortified church. Today's appearance goes back to the reconstruction of the summer residence of Prince Joseph von Sachsen-Hildburghausen . Since 1778 the castle has been in the possession of the Rühle von Lilienstern family , who lost it in 1945 and own it again today and whose descendants still live in it.

The Bedheim Palace complex is an important example of a baroque manor ensemble, the essential components of which have been preserved.

Former paleontological collection

Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern opened a paleontological museum in the outbuildings of the castle on August 1, 1934, in which the famous dinosaur finds from Gleichberg near Römhild were shown. Liliensternus (formerly Halticosaurus, the "jumping lizard") was a medium-sized theropod dinosaur that lived in the Upper Triassic (215 to 200 million years ago) in what is now Germany. The approximately 3 meter high and up to 7 meter long coelophysoid is estimated to weigh about 130–150 kg. The predatory dinosaur was named after Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern. The museum was closed in 1969, the finds are now in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin . For Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern's 110th birthday, a memorial stone was placed in the castle garden in 1992.

Personalities

literature

  • Karl Russ: Chronicle of Bedheim . Community of Gleichamberg, Hildburghausen 2005.
  • Hans Löhner: The "Bimmelbähnle" from Hildburghausen to Lindenau-Friedrichstal: A Thuringian narrow-gauge railway into Heldburger Land . Verlag Michael Resch, Neustadt / Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805967-5-3 .
  • Norbert Klaus Fuchs: The Heldburger Land - a historical travel guide . Rockstuhl Publishing House, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-349-2 .
  • Paul Lehfeldt : Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia, booklet XXXI, Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen, district court districts of Heldburg and Römhild . 1904, reprint, Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza, ISBN 978-3-86777-378-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Acht (arr.): The documents since d. Death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) until z. Death of Archbishop Konrad (1200) . In: Historical Association for Hesse (Ed.): Mainzer Urkundenbuch . Volume II-1 (1137-1175). Darmstadt 1968. (385)
  2. ^ Kai Lehmann : Exhibition "Luther and the Witches", Bedheim area, Library Museum Schloss Wilhelmsburg Schmalkalden, 2012; Egbert Friedrich: Witch hunt in the Rodach area and the witch trial ordinance of Duke Johann Casimir (writings of the Rodacher Rückert Circle, issue 19), Rodach 1995, pp. 192-236.
  3. ↑ Municipalities 1994 and their changes since January 1, 1948 in the new federal states , Metzler-Poeschel publishing house, Stuttgart, 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 , publisher: Federal Statistical Office
  4. ↑ F. v. Huene: A new coelurosaur in the Thuringian Triassic ; Paläontologische Zeitschrift 16 (1934), pp. 145–170.

Web links

Commons : Bedheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files